How does phenotypic plasticity happen?
- Instantaneous / instinctual responses
- Gene expression responses
- process by which the information encoded in a gene is turned into a function
- increased or decreased production of RNA/proteins
- Epigenetic responses
- structural changes to DNA that change how your body reads a DNA sequence
- mechanisms where DNA is not accessible for transcription
- DNA nucleotide sequence does not change
- possibly inherited

Different types of genetic changes

Changes to DNA sequence underlie adaptation

Changes to gene expression underlie plasticity

Changes to gene expression underlie plasticity (epigenetic)
